Gradoli With your hands

Vineyard and cellar tour with tasting at Le Coste, Gradoli

Gradoli

Le Coste farms the awkward slope above Lake Bolsena: old vines, black volcanic soil, natural wines. Standing in the rows explains the bottle better than the label ever will.

How the day goes

  1. Out into the vineyards on the crater rim, with the lake sitting below you.
  2. Then the cellar, and wines chosen by whatever the season is showing well.
  3. A longer format puts more time in both, and adds barrel samples with cheese and cured meats.
  4. Wines and farm produce can be bought before you leave.

Natural wine tastes like natural wine — cloudy, alive, occasionally strange; if you want something polished, the Montefiascone cellars pour a different style.

Where it is

Gradoli at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Gradoli, and where it is from Rome Gradoli drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 126 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 126 min Rome Gradoli

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Piave, 7 – 01010 Gradoli (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 2 h 06drive from the middle of Rome
  • 156 kmeach way
  • 2 h 30once you are there

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you — so you can actually drink

    Our pick for this one

    There is wine at the end of this one. Somebody else driving is not a luxury here.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody has to stay off the wine

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